I've groused about our regional bus service before, but it really is insane. Two or three people on a huge bus, and more often than not that includes the driver. The most I've ever seen on one bus was seven or eight people, and I've only come up with that head count twice in twenty years of lazy observation. As recently as a couple of weeks ago, I've seen three buses in a row pull in at the mall and only two or three people get off. A fortune could be saved if they sold all the buses and fired nearly everybody who works down in this taxpayer rat-hole. A less insane approach would use a couple of vans to hit the high density population areas and most common destinations every two or three hours. It'd be more economical, saving on fuel, equipment and manpower AND the service would be retained. Want to know what they've done instead? They've now gone out and purchased hybrid buses. No kidding. These empty behemoths roll around town announcing "HYBRID" on their sides to all the people who don't ride on them but who pay for them with their tax dollars. So a crummy technology that no one wants that exists only because government throws billions at it is installed in buses no one here rides; buses which are, of course, themselves subsidized in the first place and sold to a taxpayer-funding regional bus line that nearly no one uses. But, no, there's no place to trim government. Why, think of the children!

Sixteen trillion in federal debt and counting...